“Do plants feel?” This is one of many questions that Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose po

“Do plants feel?” This is one of many questions that Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose posed. Bose, today’s featured Google Doodle (11/30/16), did extensive research into measurable physical responses that plants exhibit, even claiming that plants, like humans and other animals, have a pulse. Bose wrote in 1926, "The barriers which have separated kindred phenomena are now thrown down and plants and animals are found to be a multiple unity in a single ocean of being. Our sense of wonder is quickened, not lessened, when we realize our kinship with all that live.”While Bose’s research was at times controversial, this essential question of whether (and how) plants feel has remained one that some botanists and other scholars continue to research.The clipping here comes from the collections of the LuEsther T. Mertz library at NYBG. -- source link

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